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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lettie cook the narrator for breakfast in Chapter 3?
(a) Eggs and bacon.
(b) Toast and jam.
(c) Pancakes.
(d) Oatmeal.

2. Where does the narrator feel pain when he catches the writhing mass of cobwebs and rotting cloth in Chapter 4?
(a) His face.
(b) His arm.
(c) His foot.
(d) His leg.

3. What color are the walls in the narrator’s parents’ bedroom?
(a) Green.
(b) Pink.
(c) Cream.
(d) Yellow.

4. Where is the opal miner said to be from?
(a) South Africa.
(b) United States.
(c) Australia.
(d) New Zealand.

5. What animal is seen by the narrator and Lettie as they feel the storm in Chapter 4?
(a) A raccoon.
(b) A panther.
(c) A cougar.
(d) A manta wolf.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the setting of the story that the narrator reads after his father and Ursula come in from the gardens in Chapter 7?

2. Who is described as the previous housekeeper at the narrator's family's home in Chapter 6?

3. Once the narrator becomes an adult, who tells him that he had been a monster when he was a child?

4. What color dress is Lettie wearing in Chapter 3?

5. How does the narrator stop the light from hitting the hole in his foot in Chapter 5?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Lettie find the way to the creature to bind it in Chapter 4?

2. Why does the narrator have to share a room with his sister in Chapter 2?

3. From whom does the narrator receive a letter in Chapter 3? What is revealed in the letter?

4. How does the narrator describe Ursula when she first arrives?

5. What new job has the narrator's mother taken in Chapter 6?

6. What does the narrator’s sister do every night before bed?

7. How does the narrator describe the clearing that he and Lettie enter in their search for the creature in Chapter 4?

8. What does the narrator’s father do in Chapter 7 after the narrator refuses to eat or apologize to Ursula?

9. Who steals the narrator’s father’s car in Chapter 2? Why?

10. What are narcissi and what are they named for?

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